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Stimpy wrote:
kedron wrote:
But that's just a guess. It's precisely the kind of guess I suggested
you were making. Between poll tax, country alliance, cnd, anti-war,
pensioners, petrol geeks etc etc, I'd say your guess is wrong.
I'd say you're misjudging your fellow citizens.
What do the rest of you think?
I've been around for 43 years now...
Deepest sympathies.
and know no-one who has ever been on any
kind of mass demonstration. Most people I know really don't care *that*
much about the sort of things that demonstrations tend to cover -
So WHO are all these people who demonstrate?
How can you account for all those examples I provided above?
I left a few examples out -- like trade union demonstrators, animal
rights activists, environmentalists etc
People are demonstrating all the time about all manner of things,
many of which you never hear about...like this one which appeared
in the news only yesterday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/3272961.stm
I bet you if you asked around your friends, you might be surprised.
they, like
me, are just getting on with their own lives and doing the best they can to
create a secure future for their families.
You think demonstrators don't do that as well?
Sure there are things I might feel are wrong or with which I might disagree
(in my case this would, for example, include the recent war, the Bush visit
and the fox hunting ban) but I certainly wouldn't go on a demonstration
about them - I have better things to do with my time
And I'm not denying that there are many people like you who don't
care enough about anything to want to do something about it.
Nor am I saying I agree with every demonstrator. But I do agree with
their right to demonstrate, and I believe far more people are exercising
that right than you suppose. I also believe that they can make a difference.
Like the one that's going to happen this week.
The difference between caring enough and not caring enough is a world of
a difference.
And people who don't care enough shouldn't complain should their smug
existences ever get tossed upside down -- because it will have happened
in THEIR names.
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kedron